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Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who
are important to them. But what can they make that will delight the
person they are giving the gift to?

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gift ideas that you children can make. Guaranteed to be fun the
children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.

From a Mystery Party with fingerprint
activities and mystery foods to a Prehistoric Party with fossil digs and
dinosaur crafts, this book contains creative ideas for 50 theme parties,
including suggestions for invitations, decorations, costumes, games and
other activities, food,
and party favors

Do you want your children to have great
birthday parties? Not just the kind of party where you spend a
lot of money to take them some place, but the kind of party that
will create a memory for the rest of their lives.These party packages include everything
you need to easily create a fantasy party for your child.

Use the individual size pizza crusts.
Put out bowls with different toppings (cheese, sauce, pepperoni,
mushrooms, tomato, peppers), and let each child make their own pizza.
Be sure you know whose pizza is where when you put them in the oven.

Before the party, cut pictures of animals
out of old nature magazines. Try to use the pictures on the covers,
because they are sturdier. Then pin a picture with a safety pin to the back of
each kid's T-shirt. They all can ask each other yes or no questions, like
"Do I swim in the ocean?," "Do I have feathers?" or
"Do I live in the jungle?" until they figure out which animal
are they. It was a wonderful ice-breaker too, if some of the kids don't
know each other before the party. Very fun, and something all the kids
could easily participate in.

You can also play this game with older kids
using pictures of rock stars or movie stars.
Thanks to Alithia for sending in this idea.

One idea that worked out beautifully for my
daughter's 5th birthday was to have a arts and craft table when the guest
arrived. The arts and crafts table was a great ice breaker for the kids
and parents. The girls decorated their princess hats and the boys
decorated their crowns. We had stickers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter
pens (that didn't work so great - too messy), and ribbon. We also had the
kids decorate their goody bags. Brown or white paper sacks work great as
party bags. We had a piñata and the kids put their candy and small toys
in their decorated party bags.

When I was going to have a large group of mostly
boys age 10, and a couple girls. My husband and I went to a
appliance store and asked for some of their big huge boxes that the
refrigerators come in, got them home and made a giant maze in our
backyard. If you don't have room in your yard the local park or
recreation centers are usually good about allowing use of their areas
providing you clean up.

I just had a birthday party for my son, we made butterfly's out of a coffee filter.

Materialscoffee filter
pipe cleaners
spray bottle
magnets

Have the children color the coffee filter (the more color the better).
When they are finished spray water on the entire filter (this gives a tied dyed look) let it
dry. Pinch together in the middle wrap a pipe cleaner around it turn the top of the cleaner for the antenna's and put a magnet on the back. They all had a great time
making them and my son is still making them. You would also tie a clothes pin to it with pipe cleaner then add the magnet and it could hold messages on your fridge.

For my son's 2nd birthday, we had a Bob-the-Builder themed party and I bought a bunch of unfinished birdhouses from the crafts store and set up a large table with paints and brushes.

I told all the children that before they came to the party, Bob the Builder stopped by and dropped off all the birdhouses that he made for them to paint. When they were finished, that became their party favor. It worked so well even my son believed it.

My daughter just turned 4 yrs old in Oct. We had her first, and my first, birthday party. I was so nervous & worried about having a good turn out and the kids having fun. I think the biggest hit at the party was the Hayride. My father got some straw and put it on our trailer and took our guests, kids and parents, around our property for a "hayride", Everyone had a blast! The other thing that was a big hit was the goats, the pony and the geese.

For more ideas on kids activities, visit
the Creative Kids at Home Activity Library.

We'd like to create a list
of some of the best (or worst) ideas for themes and activities at
children's birthday parties. Send us your stories for our
Birthday Ideas page.

Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who
are important to them. But what can they make that will delight the
person they are giving the gift to?

Here's how you can quickly and easily get lots of simple, high quality
gift ideas that you children can make. Guaranteed to be fun the
children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.